August 27, 2024
Dear editor;
It has become fashionable for some politicians to call their opponents “weird”. How clever!
Our Country, State, and County are in so much turmoil that voters should reject junior high school behavior and focus on existing records of performance (or lack of) and policies that will help our nation, rather than personalities and name-calling.
U.S. Senator J.D. Vance, former president Donald Trump’s selection for Republican vice-presidential nominee is currently being mislabeled “weird”. I recommend that all voters who independently think for themselves should listen to Senator Vance’s narration, in his own voice, of the book he wrote, “Hillbilly Elegy”. (I had to look up the meaning of the word elegy, which means “a song of mourning”.)
Senator Vance describes what it was like to grow up poor in the Appalachian mountain region of Eastern Kentucky then in Southern Ohio, his dysfunctional but proud family with plenty of problems, his sympathy for his mother and deep love for his grandma, gratitude towards teachers and uncles who took interest in him, his reverence for the U.S. Marine Corps, his G.I. Bill education at Ohio State, the admission process and “foreign” experience of his success at Yale Law School, and the hilarious story of the interviewing gauntlet for his first law-related job, including his second interview at a fancy social dinner. They are all simply remarkable.
Please also listen to his patient and intelligent answers now on the campaign trail about his policies and personal story as he’s grilled by adversarial corporate hatchet media. Then, make your own informed conclusion about the man.
What silly name-calling!
Instead, we ought to reject Democrat policymakers responsible for the panicked and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, ambivalent support for anti-Semitism, advocacy for the most extreme permissibility of taxpayer-paid abortions, trillions of dollars of flatulent government spending, cumulative 20% inflation in just 3 ½ years, evisceration of Title IX protections for women in sports and locker rooms, non-prosecution of crime, government rather than parent control of education, encouragement and incentivizing of open borders and illegal immigration.
If you want our nation to suffer the same economic and moral degradation endured by Illinois taxpayers, elect similar national politicians.
Chris Lauzen, former Illinois State senator, former Kane County Board chairman, current Kane County treasurer